U.S. Aid to Ukraine During 2012-2020: Analysis of Biden’s Comments on Crime and Insights from the Morning Edition

Zelenskyy spoke to Morning Edition’s Steve Inskeep in New York on Wednesday, ahead of his participation in a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council.

The U.S. gave over $110 billion in aid to Ukraine in the period from 2012 to 2022. The topic of the war has become more divisive.

Most Democrats, and even many Senate Republicans, agree that U.S. support to Ukraine has important practical and strategic implications. According to NPR, many House Republicans oppose fiscal and foreign policy because of it.

Biden has asked Congress to approve $24 billion in new aid to Ukraine. The funding has no obvious path to passage in the near term due as Congress nears an end-of-the-month deadline to approve new spending or face a government shutdown.

Zelenskyy: the first U.S. president since the end of World War I. The first visit to the United states since the War broke out

They killed our people. You saw it,” he added. They deported children. They are bombing civilians. It’s not just front lines. There is not a simple war. Energy systems. The Kakhovka Dam. Nuclear plant occupied by Zaporizhzhia. What is it? What will be next?

He addressed Congress at a special joint sessions in December of 2022, his first visit to the U.S. since war broke out. He delivered a video plea in March after Russia launched its invasion.

Zelenskyy will have a bipartisan meeting on Capitol Hill while in D.C. After meeting with the U.S. military, he is going to meet with President Biden in the Oval Office.

On the same day that Zelenskyy visited, the Security Council in New York discussed Zelenskyy’s call for Russia to be kicked out of the UN. “People don’t depend on the U.N. when it comes to their borders,” he said.